No new guy: Albany pregame

A little surprised that Ryan Pulock isn’t in tonight; if he wasn’t going to play here tonight, the Islanders had a full practice this morning. Guess you can get your work in either place, but still. Will ask afterward, not that sending him down was Brent Thompson’s decision.

Bridgeport does appear to be as it was yesterday, then, with Travis St. Denis in for Ross Johnston, though Johnston took the skate. Albany, without Scott Wedgewood, looked like Jan Mandat was the extra.

BRIDGEPORT
F: Verhaeghe-Kearns (A)-Bernier (A)
Dal Colle – Winquist – Ho-Sang
Rowe-C.Jones-Fritz
St. Denis-B.Holmstrom (C)-J.Holmstrom
(Johnston-scratch)
D: Toews-Burroughs
Cullity-Leduc
Landry-Graham
G: McAdam
Williams

ALBANY
F: Blandisi-Pietila-Straka
Quenneville-Coleman-Gibbons
Thomson-Rooney-Novak
Gazdic-Pelley (C)-Sexton
(Mandat-scratch)
D: Helgeson-Mozik
MacWilliam (A)-Scarlett
Gormley-Stollery
G: Blackwood
Appleby

R: Romasko, Binda. L: Briggs, Galvin.

This should be the box.

Bridgeport scratches (believed healthy unless noted): Gibson (lower body), Lafranchise (lower body), Pulock, Boulton, Gionta (lower body), Johnston, K.Jones (lower body), Markison (lower body).

Michael Fornabaio